Motivational Quotes

Freedom

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

11.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

12.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

13.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

14.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

16.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

17.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

18.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

19.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

20.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

21.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

22.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

23.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

24.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

25.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

26.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

27.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

28.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

29.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

31.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

32.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

33.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

37.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

38.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

40.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

41.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

42.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

43.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

47.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

48.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

49.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

50.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von